Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 04:24:08 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devices under 4.0 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000219042408.0093a100@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002182135540.183-100000@mammalia.sea> References: <20000218192552.B32540@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 09:50 PM 2/18/00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: >I recently upgraded from 3.2 to 4.0. I use an ide hard disk, and would >like to know how to change over the devices. I created the new devices >by copying over /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV to a new /dev directory and running >it, but it didn't create any ata* devices such as is shown in the kernel >config file. It made them, but they are not ad, not ata. >It did make devices ada1, ada2, ada3, and ada4, which would correspond to >the four slices on my disk, but if there are no freebsd partitions shown, >such as ada4a, etc. Not 4 slices, but 4 drives. A quick example. ad[0-3] are drives ad[0-3]s[1-4] are the slices ad[0-3]s[1-4][a-h] are the partitions cd /dev/ sh MAKEDEV ads0e works and you can then mount /dev/ads0e where you like. Using the "dangerously dedicated" method changes this, but let's not go there. Blame sysinstall or the pilot for drive slices without partitions, but if you specify to mount them, then they will be created upon upgrade or install. Otherwise your are on your own to make them. Also note 'sh MAKEDEV all' will update ad[0-3]s[1-4], but the trailing partitions [a-h] are not. To be quite honest I'd rather it didn't make all the possible partitions. Bit crowded in /dev as is. Adding another few hundred more to cover this "problem" has been discussed before. Course I tend to forget this myself, but am quite used to this behaviour. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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